News & Events
News
Congratulations to Lily Jackson, who has been awarded a CGS master's scholarship, and will be doing an M.A. in linguistics at the University of Toronto!
Congratulations to Angela Dong (B.A. 2019), on completing an M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Western University!
Congratulations to Nina Evans (B.A. 2021), on starting an M.A.Sc. in Speech-Language Pathology at McGill University!
Previous talks
On November 4-5, the Linguistics Program hosted the 44th meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (APLA), with a keynote presentation on Maritime Sign Language by Dr. Beverly Buchanan of Lamar University.
Photos of the conference
Using written corpora to examine understudied languages: The case of Brazilian Veneto
Dr. Natália Brambatti Guzzo
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
5:30 p.m., Zoom (meeting id: 977 2700 8564 passcode: 814917)
Understanding Multimodal Discourses in English Language Teaching Textbooks: Implications for Students and Practitioners
Dr. Christopher A. Smith
Friday, March 5th, 2020
1:30 p.m., Zoom meeting
EEG as a tool for understanding language comprehension
Dr. Aaron Newman
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
4:00 p.m., McNally East Room 111
LIPS Talk: Agreeing with singular they
Dr. Daniel Hall
Thursday, February 8, 2018
4:00 p.m., 276 Loyola
Making the Dictionary of Cape Breton English: An Afterword and the Dictionary’s Distinctiveness
William Davey, Cape Breton University
Sunday, October 29
2:30 p.m. in the "Flex Room", McNally Main 201
LIPS Talk: What: “Bilingual life after school: Opportunity, choice and ideology among former Gaelic-medium students”
BIO: Stuart Dunmore
Friday, September 22, 2017
4:30 p.m., 218 Burke, Saint Mary's University
“Moving Past the Language Evolution Wars”
Christina Behme, Department of Philosophy, Brandon University
Thursday, May 4, 2017
10:30 am – noon, Loyola 271, Saint Mary’s University
Important Dates for the Twenty-Fourth Annual SSSR Meeting
Conference Dates: July 12-15, 2017
Conference Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Conference Submissions
LIPS Talk: What: “The role of imageability in accessing lexical representations for spelling”
Richard Drake, Honour Student
Friday, March 24, 2017
2:00 p.m., Atrium 216, Saint Mary's University
40th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
October 28-29, 2016
For more information about APLA, please visit: http://www.unb.ca/apla-alpa. Conference website: http://www.msvu.ca/apla40.
Deadline for abstract submissions: September 15, 2016
Linguistics Advising
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
4:00-5:00 p.m., Loyola Academic 282, Saint Mary's University
Need help with selecting future courses or maybe want to know more about the courses? This would be a great opportunity to find out.
LIPS Talk: WH-labels
Dr. Egor Tsedryk, Associate Professor of French & Linguistics
Thursday, October 20th, 2016
4:00 p.m., Loyola Academic 282, Saint Mary's University
The 43rd annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
Saint Mary's University
August 2-5, 2016
http://lacus.weebly.com/2016-conference.html
The International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association meeting -- June 2016.
Got English?
Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, and Mount Saint Vincent University
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Research Conference at Dalhousie
5 p.m. Talk by Susan Neuman
TALK! Linguistics "in Progress" Series (LIPS)
Dr. Daniel Hall
Thursday, March 26, 2015
5:15-6:15 p.m., Loyola Academic Building (room 275)
The 'Other Silence'?: Re-examining Language Shift in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
Dr. Nicholas Wolf
Thursday, March 20, 2015
7:00 p.m., Sobey Building (room 265), 903 Robie Street
The Irish Studies program is hosting Dr. Nicholas Wolf. He will be re-examining the language shift that occurred in Ireland in the nineteenth century.
Department of Psychology Colloquium Series
Dr. Randy Newman
Friday, November 21, 2014 2:30-3:30
Sobey Building room 260
Graduate Program Development: Call for participation and feedback
April 25th, 2014 1:00-3:00 p.m
McNally North 219
Speaking the Inuit Way: An Exhibition
November 14-30, 2013
Patrick Power Library
APLA 36 ALPA - 36th Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Friday - Saturday, November 2-3, 2012
How Language got in the Brain; What Linguists should know about Language Evolution
Friday, March 23, 2012
4:00-5:00 p.m., Loyola 282
Dr. Christina Behme is with the Department of Philosophy at Saint Mary's University.
The 27th Annual Saint Mary's University Psychology Student Conference
Friday, March 30, 2012
2:45 - 4:00 p.m., Scotiabank Theatre, Sobey Building
Keynote Address: Dr. Fergus I.M. Craik, Senior Scientist, Rotman Research Institue at Baycrest, Toronto.
Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind and Brain.
Gaelic in Scotland and Nova Scotia: Ideologies, Affect and Socialization in Language Shift and Revitalization
Friday, March 16, 2012
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Loyola 181
Dr. Emily McEwan-Fujita is a candidate for an Assistant Professorship in Anthropology with a specialization in linguistics anthropology.
The Foreign Adventures of Xiaoming: Narrative, Agency and the English Modern in Northeastern China
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
10:00-11:15 a.m., Loyola 181
Dr. Eric Hery of Carleton University is a candidate for an Assistant Professorship in Anthropology with a specialization in linguistics anthropology.
Teaching English After Graduation
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
2:30, McNally MM 227
Julian L’Enfant, Director of Teacher Training & Cambridge CELTA tutor at English Canada will be at the SMU Campus on Wednesday, February 29th (2:30 – 4:30pm, McNally MM 227) to give a presentation on the Cambridge CELTA, the world’s most recognized training program for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Learn about the program and how it can lead to a rewarding experience teaching abroad or here in Canada.
Honours Thesis Presentation
Monday, November 28, 2011
5:30, MM 209
Annie Fortin - Subject doubling or dislocation: The case of the Saguenay dialect
Tracey Lothian - Positive emotional reaction of speakers to English words
Invited Talk
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
5:30, MM 201
Nelleke Strik (Dalhousie University)
Wh-in-situ in Dutch: Transfer from French in bilingual French-Dutch children
Open House
Friday, October 28, 2011
9:00-13:00, MM 223
Are you curious about languages? Do you like puzzles? Are you thinking about a career in speech pathology, audiology, journalism, language teaching, language documentation and revitalization? Linguistics might be an option for you. Please drop by.
Meet and Greet
Friday, September 16, 2011
11:30-13:30, SB 260
This is a good opportunity to meet faculty members and other students in Linguistics. We would also like to take a few minutes to present some useful information regarding courses, possible degree combinations, scholarship opportunities, conferences and workshops. And it will be a great pleasure for us to answer your questions.
Bringing the Language Home: Language Revitalization in the Family
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
7:00 P.M.
Atrium 101
The interplay between speaker differences and chunk frequency effects on scene description: MEG and EEG studies
Antoine Tremblay, Aaron J. Newman, Timothy Bardouille
(IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, NRC IBD Atlantic)
Friday April 29th, 4:00-5:00 pm
Sobey Building 160
Examine no /t/:Using databases to investigate phonological universals
Daniel Hall
Linguistics Program,
Saint Mary's University
Friday, March 25th, 4:00-5:00 pm
Sobey Building 265
How children's linguistic knowledge supports their reading
Helene Deacon
Friday, February 11th,
4:00-5:00 pm
Loyola 177
Saint Mary's University
Language VS Communication: Investigating the neural networks involved in biological motion, symbolic gesture, and sign language
Aaron Newman
Friday January 28th, 4:00-5:00 pm
Loyola 177, SMU
From speech synthesis by analogy to computational simulations of human reading
Yannick Marchand
Friday, November 26th, 4:00-5:00 pm
Sobey Building 260, SMU
The building blocks of language
Antoine Tremblay
Friday, October 29th, 4:00-5:00pm
Loyola 296, SMU
All welcome.